Security News

Winnti group's attack platform is based on decade old malware (Help Net Security)

2015-10-07 06:58

Kaspersky Lab experts tracking the activity of the Winnti group have discovered an active threat based on a 2006 bootkit installer. The threat, which they name HDRoot after the original tool’s name HD...

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Targeted Attack Exposes OWA Weakness (Threatpost)

2015-10-06 14:54

A targeted attack has been uncovered in which hackers were able to burrow onto the corporate network and steal thousands of username-password combinations via Outlook Web Access.

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Attackers prefer lower-bandwidth DDoS attacks (Help Net Security)

2015-10-06 07:30

Analyzing customer data, Corero found that attackers are continuing to leverage sub-saturating DDoS attacks with increasing frequency, using shorter attack durations to evade legacy cloud DDoS scrubbi...

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Nuclear facilities are wide open to cyber attacks (Help Net Security)

2015-10-05 14:52

You would think that, given the potential disastrous consequences of a successful hack, the computer systems and networks of nuclear facilities would be better secured agains cyber intrusions. Unfortu...

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